To ask how you dry your laundry these days?

[InsomniacVampire]

We are a household with 2 kids. Shedloads of laundry each week. There is a garden, but it's either raining, or so cold that the laundry comes back wetter than when it came out even in the sun.
We used to own a Drybuddy but it broke and anyways we could not afford to run it now with the cost of electricity. One clothes horse (we dont have space for much more really) in the kitchen does not do the trick as the clothes take a bit to dry...
I do realise there is no magic trick but maybe someone has some creative solutions for this, or also just wants to moan about wet laundry...

The ceiling ones are great! I am having one put in soon. For now I do what my family and billions of others do around the world and put it into the airoest bit of house. The landing.
No mould, if it's nice-iwh weather, it goes out under pergola then finish off on the landing.

Sounded bit like some dark drying ritual!

The autocorrects are great today

To me that’s just completely pointless, 9/10 times I would have to have rewashed it over the past 2 months as it would have rained during the day.
And any good drying time in the early afternoon is well undone by 6pm in the winter when the washing would be damp again.

Launderette. £2 - £3 a week for everything in together including towels and bedding. (two of us here)

This is generally what I do now. Bedding, towels etc done on days it’s forecast to be good and looks ok. It does dry most of the way but I do have to put clothes on hangers outside for more air flow.

I have 3 kids so also do every morning and either hang it outside or next to a radiator with a de humidifier nearby

Line and tunble drier.

I have a pulley in the utility room and an over door airer from wilko that doesn't take up floorspace

Tumble dryer. I’m sorry bit that’s something I can’t really do without

Wait. Why does rained on need rewashing?

Of course people peg it out even when they work 9-5

Launderette once a week for the heavier items - duvets, towels, heavy jumpers.

The dryers cost me £4.00 a week, also have an airier drying the lighter stuff in the bedroom

I'm lucky to have a good sized airing cupboard so I either hang things out or use that. I do have a tumble dryer, but it's for emergencies only these days (and I avoided using it even before the curren situation with energy prices because of environmental reasons).

Air dryer for clothes & towels.
With Bedding, I sometimes hang outside if it’s sunny but it doesn’t dry fully, so I drape sheets over a normal clothes dryer in the utility room - it’s a small room and seems to retain heat, especially if the air dryer or radiator has been on.

I'm just drying clothes on the radiators as usual. I coincide have my heating on pretty much when clothes need drying. I was getting black mould on windows so I figure that the heating needs to be on sometimes. The thermostat is set for 17° so it's coming on most mornings now so I leave things on the radiator overnight.

Baby clothes on the airer, takes about 48hours to dry.

Everyone elses clothes on hangers in doorways, again takes about 48hours then iron and that gets the final bit dry if needed.

Anything I tumble dry shrinks. I never understand people suggesting a tumble drier for anything other than towels.

I don't really understand this remark that one poster or another posts on every laundry thread. I've had tumble dryers for over 25 years but I don't think anything has ever shrunk in any of the dryers I've had.

I have used a dryer since eldest was a baby, always hang out washing in spring/summer. Our tumble dryer was on its last legs so have now bought a heat pump one. I have started to hang out washing on blowy days and finish off in dryer too.
My youngest son has a lung condition and paediatrician advised to not dry washing indoors.

Tumble dryer. Saves on ironing too. I do peg some stuff out if weather OK and few things on radiator. I would rather sit in cold whilst wfh and everyone out with jumper on and have dryer on ie save money not having both on. Lucky I have the space for one.

Outside if it's dry - but we live in Cumbria, so 90% of the time it goes in the dryer.

Wait. Why does rained on need rewashing? @BosaNova

Because more often than not clothes that sit out into the evening soaking wet from rain hours previously will smell when they are brought indoors for the rest of the night.
It’s not the same as it starting to rain and you are home and can run out and bring the washing straight in, if you’re not home until 6 the clothes could be out in the rain for hours or sitting for hours in the damp weather after rain.

Maybe it doesn’t bother some people, or maybe they don’t care or are so used to it that they don’t smell it anymore but there is a very clear smell when clothes have been soaked for too long and slowly dried.

I never had smelly clothes after it being out there even in rain all day (mainly because there is just no point getting it in at some point😂). It's different to it festering in washing machine.

Maybe i just wash well. I wish my mother was here to witness it.

Just hang on a rack? Pretty careful to minimise laundry, only do about 2 washes a week

On an average day, it ain't so bad. Lakeland heated airer, radiators, dehumidifier or outside (Scotland and impossible at the minute).
However, the bed-changing days are torturous. I really have to rotate it more, rather than washing all the bedding at once.
Bedding + towels = hell on earth.

electric dehumidifier and putting the heating on 2 hours per day

I use a service wash at the laundrette. I am not well off but since DH died keeping on top of the laundry whilst being responsible for bloody everything else- handing over a huge basket of laundry once a week and getting it back washed, dried and folded and ready to go away without ironing has been amazing. I work full time and discoverd it when my tumble dryer broke. It has certainly become more expensive recently but it still only equates to one hours pay minus energy costs of doing it at home.

Tumble dryer